Top 203 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Simon - Page 4

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

All I've got to do today is smile.

The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.